I couldn't find anything about this so I had to figure it out myself.
Hopefully it will help someone else.
We have a couple of Buffalo NAS drives which can support printers.
I used to have an HP Inkjet printer attached to one of them but someone else needed that and I got a Dell 1250c Colour Laser Printer from Tesco for £50.
It seemed to me that if I got 3 times as long from it as we had from the HP before it needed new supplies I would be ahead.
However there was the matter of getting it to work over USB from a networked NAS drive.
This was much easier than I feared. It came with a disk of stuff (drivers etc) which I installed on my XP Laptop.
That didn't do much other than install various bits of monitoring software which couldn't find a printer.
I then tried a manual printer add (using "have disk"picking the Dell inf file at the critical moment from the CD) and using a new port (local IP port created using the IP address of the printer and the print queue \lp for the Buffalo).
To my amazement it worked fine.
I followed the same manual add for the Windows 7 Desktop.
To my further amazement Dell have a driver DMG for Mac OSX which worked with my 10.4 Macbook.
I installed that then added a Network printer in "Print and Fax" as with the XP machine. Once again it "just worked".
I'm not sure who deserves prizes although one to Dell for doing a Mac driver when they make PCs is due.
If there are more detailed questions I'll do a follow up.
Best of luck !
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Nice Job man!... The how to disable the autorun on ZTE dongle's worked for me... Keep it going friend... A lot of people reads these blogs but nobody says thank you... thank you man...
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ReplyDeleteThis is mostly a set of notes for me but sometimes it is so hard to get something to work that when I finally achieve it I think it is worth sharing the information.
I think the Dell would only handle paper. I've not tried anything else.
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